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User Interaction
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Privileges Required
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CVE-2022-48943

Disclosure Date: August 22, 2024 •
CVE-2022-48943 CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: x86/mmu: make apf token non-zero to fix bug

In current async pagefault logic, when a page is ready, KVM relies on
kvm_arch_can_dequeue_async_page_present() to determine whether to deliver
a READY event to the Guest. This function test token value of struct
kvm_vcpu_pv_apf_data, which must be reset to zero by Guest kernel when a
READY event is finished by Guest. If value is zero meaning that a READY
event is done, so the KVM can deliver another.
But the kvm_arch_setup_async_pf() may produce a valid token with zero
value, which is confused with previous mention and may lead the loss of
this READY event.

This bug may cause task blocked forever in Guest:
INFO: task stress:7532 blocked for more than 1254 seconds.

   Not tainted 5.10.0 #16

“echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs” disables this message.
task:stress state:D stack: 0 pid: 7532 ppid: 1409
flags:0x00000080
Call Trace:
__schedule+0x1e7/0x650
schedule+0x46/0xb0
kvm_async_pf_task_wait_schedule+0xad/0xe0
? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x60/0x70
__kvm_handle_async_pf+0x4f/0xb0
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30
exc_page_fault+0x6f/0x110
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30
asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30
RIP: 0033:0x402d00
RSP: 002b:00007ffd31912500 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 0000000000071000 RBX: ffffffffffffffff RCX: 00000000021a32b0
RDX: 000000000007d011 RSI: 000000000007d000 RDI: 00000000021262b0
RBP: 00000000021262b0 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000086
R10: 00000000000000eb R11: 00007fefbdf2baa0 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 000000000007d000 R15: 0000000000001000

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
7.8 High
Impact Score:
5.9
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
High
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Offensive Application
Unknown
Utility Class
Unknown
Ports
Unknown
OS
Unknown
Vulnerable Versions
Linux 72fdfc75d421
Linux not down converted
Prerequisites
Unknown
Discovered By
Unknown
PoC Author
Unknown
Metasploit Module
Unknown
Reporter
Unknown

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel
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